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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18, NO. 40.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, September 2,
of the S:;^ ’hill Territory of North Carolina
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FIVE CENTS
PLANS PROGRESS
FOR AIR DEFENSE
MANEUVERS HERE
Air Corps Officers On Flying
Visit Here Tuesday Complete
Preliminary Arrangements
GAMES OCTOBER 3-17
Adult Education Program Is
Gaining Momentum in County
Paying a flying visit to Knoll-;
wood Airport early Tuesday mom- j
Ing from Langley FieM, Va., Majors i
Schramm and Ashe, of the U. S. Air;
Force, spent most of the morning'
here with Airport Manager Harold,
Bachman completing preliminary ar
rangements for the preparation of
the Knollwood field as one of the j
three viefen.sc bases (along with Fort|
Bragg and Maxton Airport) in this ^
area during the air defense maneu- j
vers and tactics to be iried out in
the gigantic war games here from'
October 3 through 17. \
Choose Camp Site \
Definite plans were made to io-'
cate the encampment for the approx-1
imately 150 officers and men who 1
will man the field, along the Garth- j
age Road in an area adjoining the |
hangars and adjacent to the flying!
field, and a conference was held with
Mayor D. G. Stutz of Southern Pines
relative to running a water pipe line I
from the town water supply to the i
airport to supply a volume of water |
sufficient to meet the needs of the,
large number of men who will be en-!
camped there. ;
Major Schramm, who will be in'
command of the forces at Knollwood |
Airport, stated that there would be'
15 planes located at Knollwood dur
ing the two weeks of the air defense
maneuvers and that, at some time:
during that period, one or more of j
the great new “flying fortresses”
would put in an appearance there-
Arrive Here October S
The Army Air Corps officers, men
and planes will arrive on October 3rd
and, in addition to the planes, other
equipment to be utilized will be a
complete two-way radio communica
tion system, a mobile lighting sys
tem, consisting of a revolving bea
con, floodlights, boundary lights and,
possibly, a battery of anti-aircraft
artillery. tjt
During the two weelts of the man
euvers at least one of every known
type of Army plane will be on the
field at one time or another.
Bloodhounds, By Gosh
Plenty of Excitement In Sou
thern Pines as Officers
Trail Sneak Thief
Suspecting that the culprit who
broke into Knowles’ Grocery Store
in Southern Pines on Tuesday
night might be the same person,
or one of the same group, respon
sible for a series of similar depre
dations in and around the county
during ihe last few weeks, officers
here sent a hurried call to Carth-
thage for Charles Jenkins and
his bloodhounds immediately after
Mr. Knowles reported having seen
the man dive out of the back win
dow of his store, just as he
(Knowles) entered by the front
door, at about 8:00 p. m.
For more than four hours local
and county officers followed the
trail picked up by the bloodhounds
and, enroute, picked up a curious
and enthusiastic gallery of towns
people as the trail led from the
corner of Broad street and Con
necticut avenue to Weymouth
Heights, back into the center of
town and thence to an abandoned
house in Jimtowm, where the trail
suddenly ended and the hounds
laid down and called it a day.
Mr. Knowles had only a fleeting
glimpse of the thief as he dove
through the back window and
could give no description. The loss
was trifling.
FRIENDS HONOR
CAMERON COUPLE
ON ANNIVERSARY
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hartsell
Congratu-lated.—Have Been
Married 66 Years
The Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hartsell
September To See Start of
Drive To Educate County’s
F'unctional Illiterates
MRS. McGRAW IN CHARGE
By Be!»Hie Cameron Smith
“I can write my name, nowl” A
glow of elation and triumph beam
ed from the eyes of the speaker, a
Moore county grandfather, who for a
short time had been attending a WPA
class for adults.
“My teacher said that if I would
keep on going, she would take me
through the fifth grade,” he confid
ed further, adding a bit wistfully:
"And if I could do that. I’d be all
right.”
Such men as this, men wi\o
“haven’t had a chance,” have a
brighter day ahead of them, for
North Carolina intends that they
shall have their chance.
1 As far back as 1915 "Moonlight
School Month” was observed, during
which some 10,000 men and women
: enrolled in classes hoping to be able
to rise above the cross-mark stage
in their education, but interest soon
subsided, only to rise and wane at
intervals.
Out of the depression came the
Federal Emergency Education pro
gram, which in 1933 brought adult
education back on a statewide basis.
Under the CWA, then the ERA and
finally the WPA, the work was car
ried on, and in 1937 the Legislature
decided that the State should take
a hand in bringing a more abund
ant life to its illiterates.
I So North Carolina, in cooperation
[ with the WPA, is this fall making a
statewide coordinated literacy drive
that will attempt to reach every WPA
worker, every patron of a public
school, and every holder of a driv
er’s license who has to sign his
name with a cross-mark, and we are
told that there are 3,000 such driv
ers within the borders of our State.
Of the approximately ^30,000 adults
in the State who are not functional
literates, Moore county claims 1,704,
COURT RUUNG
MAY REVERSE
STATE BOARD
Judge Harris Indicates He May
Grant Burgin Plea In
8th District Race
SoutS. n Pines To Play
Host To S. A. L, Officials
Prospects Looking Up
HURRIED APPEAL LIKELY
Judge W. C. Harris indicated Wed
nesday that he will hold that the ;
State Board of Elections is without (
power to go behind returns filed by '
county boards of elections, and that,
he will grant the petition of W. Q. ,
Burgin of Lexington for a writ of ]
mandamus to compel the board to de-1
dare him the Democratic nominee |
for Congress from the Eighth Dis- '
trict. I
Plain indication of Judge Harris’ j
opinion in the matter came in Wake i
Superior Court Wednesday when he !
sustained a demurrer by the State j
Board of Elections and dismissed the ;
petition of J. Robert Young Of Dunn |
for a writ of mandamus compelling ;
Seaboard Golf Association Mem*
bers and Guests Here Over
Labor Day
W O, BURGIN
ANNUAL GOLF TOURNEY
Southern Pines and the Southern
Pines Country Club, where the new
grass greens will be in play for the
first time, are ready for the advent
of the some 300 members and guests
of the Seaboard Air Line Golf Asso
ciation, coming here Saturday, Sun.
day and Monday for their annual
three-day outing. Every possible pre
paration for their reception and com
fort has been made and the usual
warm welcome, that has long since
become a pleasant habit with the
townspeople, is assured.
Grans Greon.s Ready
Greenskeeper Angus Maples has
the new grass greens at the Coun-
tiy Club in superlative shape and,
with the natural sportiness of the
course plus the improvement the new
greens will make, the Seaboard Golf
many of these are between the ages
(Please turn to page six)
Tobacco Buyer Killed
In Automobile Crash
Chesley V. Meredith Had Been
With Carter’s Warehouse at
Carthage for Ten Years
Charles V, Medeith, 41. prominent
tda&cco buyer of this State and Vir
ginia, was instantly killed Monday
night when his automobile side-
swiped a truck on the Aberdeen-
Pinehurst highway near the Pine-
hurst Race Track. The truck, load
ed with tobacco, was enroute from
WhltevUle to Winston.%Salem and
Meredith was proceding from Pine-
hurst to Aberdeen. The driver of the
truck, P. J. Benton of Whiteville, re
ceived a bad cut on the leg- He
was later exonerated by a coroner’s
jury.
Mr. Meredith had been with %ir-
ter’s Warehouse in Carthage for the
past ten years and had only recently
moved to Aberdeen, where he was to
again to have been associated with
R. F. Carter, in his first year as a
warehouseman on the Aberdeen mar-
Itet.
Surviving are hie widow and two
small children.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at his former home in Law-
renceville, Va-
of Cameron celebrated their 66th! of which number 612 are white per
. . , i sons. Statistics show that about as
weddmg anniversary on August 22nd i
at the home of their son, Z. V. Hart- i
sell, of Morven. During the day a |
number of old friends called to offer I
congratulations and dinner was serv-;
ed to them and other members of |
the family. Mr. Hartsell is 88 years j
of age. Mrs- Hartsell is 85. |
Apparently defeated candidate for
the board to certify him as the Dem- | the Eighth District Democratic con-
ocratic nominee for solicitor of the ' gressional nomination, whose peti-, . . .
^ ^ - ^ i » ..1, 4. T5 J ,! Association is assured three days of
Fourth Judicial District. tion to prevent the State Board of | I
Young, who based nid petition on Elections from certifying the nomina-
the allegatif'fi f'f ■’h'^lesale fraud in tion of C. B- Deane, victorious on the
the Democratic primary in Johnstou basis of amended returns ordered by
County and who contended that the ' the State Board, is expected to be
State board had the power to go granted by Judge W. C. Harris.
behind the returns and to upset re- ,
suits filed %vith it, .^aid that he would ll/ID^ AT FI
appeal to the Supremi; Court. iflClJUi ixVlil/
Bur^'ln Case Differs
In contrast to Lhe Young case. |
Burgin based his petition for man- ■
damus on the contention that the j
State board, in going behind returns, |
insofar as they concerned absentee j
ballots, in several eighth district
counties, had exceeded its authority-
The State board, rejecting returns
which gave Burgin an apparent ma
jority, required county boards to
certify new I’eturns, “purged” of
absentee ballots the State board held
were illegal, which gave C. B.
Deane of Rockingham a 23-vote ma
jority in the contest.
After the ruling on the demurrer
in the Young case and the state-
PASSES AT AGE
74 AT CARTHAGE
Laid To Rest Saturday at I n-
ion Church. Lived I« Car
thage 48 Years
Compulsory Smallpox Vaccinaton
Is Urged by State Health Official
Mrs. Catherine McLean McDon
ald, aged 74, passed away early last
Friday morning at her home in Car
thage, and was laid to rest in the
cemetery of historic Union Church
last Saturday morning at 11:00
o’clock in the presence of a large
} number of sorrowing loved ones and
ment of grounds for the ruling, At- friends. The funeral was in charge
torney General Harry McMullan, rep- I of her pastor, the Rev. W. S. Golden,
resenting the board, said that if the assisted by Dr. A. R- McQueen of
Dunn, the Rev. M- D. McNeill of San
ford, the Rev. F. S. Blue of Raleigh
and the Rev. Eme-^t Arnold of the
Union Church. Bearers were H. L.
Maness, T. K. Frye, John Willcox,
W. H. Currie, C. J. McDonald and
F. Y. Blanton.
(Please turn to page six)
, Cites Immunization Results Obtained Under Maryland Law
j They have lived in Moore County j w'here Children Must Be Vaccinated Before They May ,
; for 32 years, and have made many Matriculate In Any Public School ] sojourn on earth was spent in in
Although 35 years of her slightly
j less than three quarters of a century
friends. They are one of the happiest
couples in Cameron and their home
life is ideal. Their daughter, Miss
Annie, and their son, Lyndon, live
with them and anticipate their every
want. Mrs. Hartsell suffered a fall
and broke her hip five years ago,
and since that time has been confin
ed to her wheel chair, but still re
tains her happy, cheerful disposition.
This couple were blessed with 14
children, eight of whom are living.
They are; Mrs. T. A. Hendricks, Miss
Annie and Lyndon Hartsell of Camer
on; A. D. Hartsell, Clearwater, Fla.;
J. B. Hartsell of Tampa, Fla.; C. P.
Hartsell of Rockingham; E. L. Hart
sell of Jewett, 111.; Z. V. Hartsell
of Morven. Tkey have 15 grandchild
ren and 19 great-grand children.
Rev. Hartsell served as a minister
of the Baptist Church for 40 years,
and only retired due to age. Mrs.
Hartsell, before marriage, was Miss
Nancy Jane Thomas of Anson coun
ty-
MALCOLM GROVER ANNEXES
NEWTON. IOWA. GOLF CROWN
B.ANKS, POSTOFFICES IN
COUNTY CLOSED MONDAY
Malcolm Grover, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Grover of Southern
Pines, is the new golf champion of Robert H. Riley, director of the De-
“If North Carolina will follow the
lead of Maryland and make not only
vaccination against smallpox a le
gal requirement for matriculation in
any public school, but also immuniza
tion against diphtheria and typhoid
fever, It can stamp out these di
seases, even as Maryland has elimi
nated smallpox. Instead of being
500 or 600 cases of typhoid fever re
ported each year and from 2,000 to
4,000 cases of diphtheria, there will,
In time, be none, as these diseases are
just as preventable a» smallpox," de
clared Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State
Health Officer for North Carolina.
“Now Is the time to give thought
to this question, as approximately a
million of our children are preparing
to re-enter school," Dr. Reynolds con
tinued. "North Carolina has taken
the lead In th5 support of all Its
schools, and, undoubtedly, our educa
tional system Is on the up-grade, but
I feel We will not have done our full
duty toward our school children un
til we require their immunization
against diseases which we know are
preventable.
Maryland Law Provisions
“ ‘Our Maryland law,’ says Dr.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company of Southern Pines and the
Bank of Pinehurst, with its Aberdeen
and Carthage branches, will be clos
ed all day Monday, Labor Day- Post-
offices will be closed after the early
morning mall has been “worked.”
Many store* and offices will be cloe-
•d all day, others half the day.
the Newton (Iowa) Country Club, ac
cording to word received early this
Week by The Pilot.
Young Grover, who has been em
ployed in Newton for the past few
years by the lowa State Telephone
Co., won the championship Sunday
with a decisive 5 and 4 victory over
last year’s club champion, to whom
he lost last year in the second round
by the same margin as his victory
Sunday.
partment of Health of that State,
‘requires every child to be vaccinated
against smallpox before he or she
can be enrolled in any public school
in the State- Physicians are expected
to vaccinate all babies under their
care before the children are a year
old. Until children are of school age,
the responsibility for having It done
rests with the parents- After that, it
' validism, her winsome personality
school trustee, or commissioner of a ' projected itself far beyond the walls
public school who admits a child who i of her sick room and none of the
has not been successfully vaccinated ! many who visited her left without
against smallpox i.<» liable to a fine feeling its benediction. And in spite
of $10.’ What Maryland has done, | of the fact that she was debarred
North Carolina can and ought to | from outside activities her Interest In
do, but It ought to go further and them remained keen and her gener-
Include typhoid fever and diphtheria.
There have been only two cases of
smallpox in Maryland In eight years.
osity and her desire to serve human
ity knew no bounds.
Mrs. McDonald was born near
super perfect golfing accommoda
tions wlien, for the twelfth consecu
tive year, the members and guests tee
off tomorrow (Saturday) morning in
the opening day’s play of their three-
day tournament-
GuesAs From Far and Near
Special Pullman cars will leave
Birmingham. Atlanta, Jacksonville,
Savannah, Washington and Norfolk,
although many members from the
Seaboard territory will motor here at
their convenience. Guests of the asso
ciation from as far north as New
York and as far west as Chicago will
be here for the occasion and the list
will include ranking officers of many
transportation systems.
The Highland Pines Inn, under the
management of M. H. Turner, will be
the headquarters for the majority of
the visitors and Charlie Sadler of
the Park View and Frank Welch of
the Belvedere have booked reserva
tions for many members and guests
The association officials this year
are as follows: W. D. Simpson, pres
ident; C. H. Gattis, 1st vice-president;
C. A. Earnest, 2nd vice-president and
chairman of the tournament com
mittee, and J. C. Biady, secretary and
treasurer.
“Peg” Parson To Wed In
Pinehurst In December
Engagement To Albert Hunt of
Weston, Mass., Is Announced
at Brooklin, Maine
One of these occurred in 1931, the i Union (i^urch, December 10, 186.^.
other In 1935. The other years In that | the daughter of John McLean, a na
tive of Scotland, and Flora Kelly of
near Carthage.
EJarly In childhood, Mrs. McDonald
united with Union Presbyterian
Church, later moving her membership
to Carthage. To this faith she gave
her devoted allegiance through the
years, ever putting “first things
first.”
On February 24, 1887, she was
married to John Hogshead McDonald,
who preceded her to the grave seven
years ago. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald
moved to Carthage in 1890. To this
union was born seven children. The
period Were free from any cases
whatever.
Favor Same Here
“The North Carolina State Board
of Health, on July 8, 1932, voted un
animously in favor of compulsory
vaccination of children before allow
ing them to matriculate.” This pol
icy ought to be written into our law
books, and I hope that some day it
will, for not until then can we hope
to root out these diseases which are
preventable and yet continue to mar
our health records and needlessly en
danger the lives of our people. In
the meantime, however, all of us
following survive; the Rev. D. McL-
should voluntarily cooperale in urg- McDonald, Columbia S. C.; A. K. Mc-
ing inoculation against preventable; p „ McDonald and
diseases before children enter school. | McDonald, both of Carth-
If a child is immunized again.^t diph-
theria when it is between six and
twelve months old it is made the ben
eficiary of the best kind of health in
surance.
“Even among those who are work
ing so faithfully to encourage immun
ization, there should be no let up In
activities. It must be remembered
that there is always a new genera
tion coming on—and that ia just why
la shared by the teachers and other i there ought to be laws enacted re-
Bchool authoritiea. Any teacher, j qulring such immunlMtlon-”
and P. H. McDonald, Jr., both of
Carthage, and Lucy Katherine and
A. K. McDonald, Jr., both of Star.
A brother, M. D. McLean of Cam
eron, also survives.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Parson of
Pinehurst and Brooklin, Maine, have
announced the engagement of their
daughter, Frances, to Albert Hunt
of Weston, Mass.
Miss Parson, known to the younger
society set of the Sandhills as “Peg,"
is a graduate of the Ethel Walker
School and a member of the Jun
ior League and the Vincent Club of
Boston. She made her debut in Bos
ton in 1933. Mr. Hunt Is a native of
Santa Barbara, Calif., and a grad
uate of Stanford University and of
Howard Business College.
The young couple plan to marry In
Pinehurst in December, after which
they will reside in Weston, Masa.
The brlde-elect’s father Is the well-
known poet, Donald Parson, author
of “Glass Flowers.”
YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUB
INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS
ROT-4RY CLUB TO MEET
The Rotary Club of Southern Pines
will hold their regular weekly lun
cheon meeting this noon, Friday, at
12:15 at Jack’s Orill
I. N. Clegg, Jr., of Carthage, was
re-elected president of the Moore
county Young Democratic club for
the new year at a meeting of the
organization in Carthage last Friday
night.
Mis.9 Hazel Brown of Hemp, was
elected vice president and Raymonl
Johnson, of Pinehurst, secretary-
treasurer.
The club will send uninstructeci
delegates to the state convention.
However, they were Instructed to give
first consideration to the candidacy
of Gordon Gray, of Winston-Salem
for state president. Moore county
will have 10 vote* in the state meet,
ing.